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Eminem's New Album Is Already Receiving Backlash For Homophobic Comments About Tyler, The Creator

In 2018, can phobias and isms please become a thing of the past?

Malinda Janay

| August 31 2018,

5:04 pm

Eminem dropped a surprise album, Kamikaze, on us Thursday night. While his fans seem excited to have new music from the Detroit rapper, it hasn't come without backlash after he used a homophobic slur against a fellow rapper.

On "Fall," Tyler, The Creator is one of several rappers catching Marshall Mathers' smoke, but he went a little too far.

“Tyler create nothing, I see why you called yourself a f****t, b***h/ It's not just 'cause you lack attention/ It's 'cause you worship D12's balls, you're sacrilegious," Eminem raps.

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I'm really really wound up by the fact none of this Eminem coverage mentions the fact he's STILL using homophobic slurs in his music [censored, reversed whatever it's about INTENTION], with some headlines even MENTIONING TYLER but not the actual slur?

A nine year old boy killed himself just last week because of homophobic bullying so a mainstream rapper suggesting that word is acceptable to use in that context is kinda fucked up wouldn’t you agree Wiggles https://t.co/5xpyIbFm86

unfriendly reminder that tyler, the creator is banned from the UK for using the word "fxggot" on his first two albums, then he came out on 'flower boy' and eminem pointed that slur at him in a song released today but eminem will not be banned from the UK

"So, that word was just thrown around so freely back then," he said in a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone. "The real me sitting here right now talking to you has no issues with gay, straight, transgender, at all. I'm glad we live in a time where it's really starting to feel like people can live their lives and express themselves."

Personal problem or not, words mean things, and words that don't belong to you or your community aren't yours for the taking.

Music

Eminem's New Album Is Already Receiving Backlash For Homophobic Comments About Tyler, The Creator

In 2018, can phobias and isms please become a thing of the past?

Malinda Janay

| August 31 2018,

5:04 pm

Eminem dropped a surprise album, Kamikaze, on us Thursday night. While his fans seem excited to have new music from the Detroit rapper, it hasn't come without backlash after he used a homophobic slur against a fellow rapper.

On "Fall," Tyler, The Creator is one of several rappers catching Marshall Mathers' smoke, but he went a little too far.

“Tyler create nothing, I see why you called yourself a f****t, b***h/ It's not just 'cause you lack attention/ It's 'cause you worship D12's balls, you're sacrilegious," Eminem raps.

Related:

I'm really really wound up by the fact none of this Eminem coverage mentions the fact he's STILL using homophobic slurs in his music [censored, reversed whatever it's about INTENTION], with some headlines even MENTIONING TYLER but not the actual slur?

A nine year old boy killed himself just last week because of homophobic bullying so a mainstream rapper suggesting that word is acceptable to use in that context is kinda fucked up wouldn’t you agree Wiggles https://t.co/5xpyIbFm86

unfriendly reminder that tyler, the creator is banned from the UK for using the word "fxggot" on his first two albums, then he came out on 'flower boy' and eminem pointed that slur at him in a song released today but eminem will not be banned from the UK

"So, that word was just thrown around so freely back then," he said in a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone. "The real me sitting here right now talking to you has no issues with gay, straight, transgender, at all. I'm glad we live in a time where it's really starting to feel like people can live their lives and express themselves."

Personal problem or not, words mean things, and words that don't belong to you or your community aren't yours for the taking.

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